Again, no surprise here. Although we should keep in mind that cellular communications are vulnerable we should also remember that the cell phone is so ubiquitous in most countries (save north Korea) that it is easy to use the cell phone as another or informal communications system in some militaries. Cell phones are probably responsible for more operational security violations than any other system. If this capability is real then I would imagine that the Y-P Do artillery shelling in 2010 was timed based on cell phone intercepts that probably provided the time and location of the artillery training exercise so the north knew when the guns were out of position and where they were going to be firing.
V/R
Dave
N. Korea Operating Wiretap Unit in Border Islands'[2012-11-16, 14:38:36]
The North Korean military's Fourth Army Corps that perpetrated the shelling of South Korea's Yeongpyeong Island in 2010 was found to be operating a wiretap unit targeting the South's northwestern border islands.
A South Korean Marine Corps official says the Fourth Army Corps' wiretapping ability for wireless networks can reach 140 kilometers south of the truce line.
http://english.kbs.co.kr/News/News/News_view.html?page=1&No=94672&id=Po
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